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ochraceous, irregularly speckled and fasciated with black, the 

 lateral margins pale ochraceous, distinctly subampliate and in a 

 line with the lateral margins of the head, the posterior margin a 

 little paler than the disk and finely spotted with black ; scutellum 

 black, its apex ochraceous ; hemelytra black, lateral margin of 

 corium pale ochraceous from the base nearly to middle, the black 



Fig. 183. Heleocoris vicinus. 



coloration encroaching on it in the form of two macular suffusions ; 

 membrane black, scarcely extending beyond the abdominal apex ; 

 connexivum pale ochraceous with the posterior segmental margins 

 black ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, the inner margins 

 of the tibiae, especially of the posterior tibiae, black ; as seen 

 beneath, the margin of the head between the eyes is black ; 

 posterior tibiae somewhat longly spinulose. 



Length 9 to 10 millim. 



Hob. W. Bengal; Manbhum (Hallowes\ Arabanga (Fermor). 

 Travancore : Temalai, W. Ghats (Annandale). 



Montandon's type is here figured. 



3099. Heleocoris bengalensis, Montand. Bull. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, 

 xix, p. 653 (1910). 



Somewhat closely resembling the preceding species, H. vicinus, 



Fig. 184. Heleocoris bengalensis. 

 in general appearance, but with the head longer, not twice as 



